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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ransom feel as Oyarsa approaches?
(a) Dizzy and unstable
(b) His fingers begin to tingle and he feels weak
(c) Calm and peaceful
(d) Happy and energetic

2. What did the Osarya prophesied to Ransom?
(a) That Ransom will become a great world leader on earth
(b) That Ransom will live to be 110 years old
(c) That Ransom will meet the woman he marries when he returns
(d) That contact with Thulcandra will be open again soon, and they may meet again one day

3. What do Ransom and the narrator want to do with the prophecy?
(a) To warn the world about the coming events
(b) To publish it and let people know there's life on other planets
(c) To become rich and famou
(d) To publish it and have a best-seller

4. What does the Oyarsa say about Ransom's fear?
(a) That he must not be much of a man if he's frightened
(b) That it's perfectly normal to feel afraid
(c) Oyarsa tells Ransom that his fear has caused his own troubles and he need not be afraid
(d) That fear is good and there is reason for it

5. Why is Ransom confused as he climbs through the mountain pass?
(a) He keeps hearing voices in the wind
(b) Thin air and altitude
(c) The pass has many small paths diverging from it
(d) He can't see anything that might be Augray's Tower

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Hyoi talking to the day he and Ransom met?

2. What happens before Hyoi can turn the boat around and head back?

3. What does the sorn look like?

4. What does Augray say about Oyarsa?

5. After Weston and Devine are taken from Oyarsa 's presence what happens to Ransom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ransom feel about going with Hyoi on the hunt for the hnakra? What does he want to prove?

2. What does the sorn and Ransom do when Ransom enters the cave?

3. Who is brought in front of Oyarsa and what happens?

4. What does Augray, the sorn, and Ransom talk about while eating?

5. What kind of knowledge interest the sorn?

6. What does Ransom do and what does he see after they land on earth?

7. What does the hross have to say about war on Malacandra?

8. What does Ransom find at the edge of the grove? Describe it.

9. Who comes to Hyoi and Ransom as they move on the water searching for the hnakra? What does he have to say?

10. Describe the hross' relationship with the hnakra.

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